*This post of mine was also published on The Huffington Post.* In the aftermath of the Charleston Shootings, which killed nine churchgoers in South Carolina, there has been so much discussion around whether the incident can be labeled an act of terrorism to whether the Confederate flag should still fly. Much of America remains wrapped up in this […]
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*This post of mine was also published in The New York Times/ Women in the World.* The sexism that plagues women in the academic disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is no secret. The most recent reminder came from Nobel Prize winning scientist Tim Hunt, whose comments about women being a distraction in
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There has barely been enough time to properly process the Charleston, South Carolina shootings, but the politics over what we call the massacre of nine black Bible study group members in also controversial. I went on CNN this morning with the Editor at Large for the Daly Beast, & The Huffington Post’s Marc Lamont Hill
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*This post of mine was also published on Forbes Woman.* Love them or hate them, but it is difficult to deny the huge role emojis play in how we communicate in modern times. The tiny images make our text-messages come alive, and new research shows people respond to emoticons the same way they would to an actual person, encouraging
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*This post of mine was also published on The Huffington Post.* If you have been laughing out loud at your computer screen louder than normal over the past few weeks, most likely you have been watching Amy Schumer’s hilarious sketches online. From unattainable beauty standards placed on women to how inaccessible birth control remains to
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*This post of mine was also published in The New York Times/Women in the World.* Sexism in Hollywood has gotten so bad that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has urged federal and state civil rights agencies to investigate “the systemic failure to hire women directors at all levels of the film and television industry.”
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With Hillary Clinton officially in the race for President, naturally there will be endless segments on gender, but I thought today’s segment on CNN with Carol Costello gave a different perspective on gender politics. I joined the Executive Director of IWF (Independent Women’s Forum), Sabrina Schaeffer, who is also a fellow PBS To The Contrary panelist,
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This week on PBS’ To The Contrary, we took on pay equity, how social media impacts marriage, anti-poverty experiments, and mothers who abandon their children. Washington, DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and I agreed on the apparently complicated issue of pay equality while some of our fellow panelists did not. I just cannot get my
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Technically, it is not even Mother’s Day in the US yet, but this year my gift arrived early all courtesy of The New York Times/Women in the World. We get so caught up in flowers and chocolate, but the real gift for mothers, on this day to celebrate us, is really having ourselves and our
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One of my favorite things to do is discuss and debate with my friends, especially those near and dear to me because chances are like me, they are passionate about gender, politics and culture. My best college buddy, Bilal Qureshi is also a fantastic and brilliant radio producer. Did I mention he produces NPR‘s All Things
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